The state's tax take is looking up, however. The state ended the last fiscal year with a healthy surplus and so far is running nearly $60 million in surpluses this fiscal year, which ends June 30.

Walker has said that it might be more difficult to sell a tax reform plan in a good economy. "It would have been easier to do, when we were really hurting last year," she said in a recent interview.

She has also said it's important not to attempt changes "bit by bit . . . You need to get everyone angry at the same time," Walker said in the same interview. "People will only look at the places they're hurt. They won't look at the places they benefit."

The price tag for the tax reform plan comes out to about $15,000, Walker's spokesman, Justin Smart, said. About half the amount is for printing and the rest for data analysis done by a professor at George Mason University in Virginia.

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